For the Oil and Gas Industry, Tax Reductions Were
Overdue?
油气工业减税政策已过期? 3
Pesky Packing Peanuts Baked and Crushed to Make
Battery Electrodes
物尽其用——泡沫填充颗粒作电极 5
“Grandparenting” in Moderation
Might Help Keep the Mind Sharp
适度的隔代教育可能有助于延缓大脑认知能力衰退 7
How Doctors Determine the Moment of Death?
死亡是如何判定的? 9
Unit 2 12
Rent Sweet Rent
租赁经济,轻松惬意 12
How Does IQ Relate to Personality?
智力与个性有怎样的关联 14
Oscar Winners Live Longer Than Nominees, Study Says
研究发现:奥斯卡获奖者寿命比提名者长 16
You Are Half the Person You Used to Be
美国居民家庭收入减半 18
Unit 3 21
Why So Little Chinese in English?
为何英语中的汉语借词如此之少? 21
Parenting Like a Tiger Mom May Make Your Kids Obese
虎妈的孩子易变胖 23
Its Time to Pay Attention to Sleep,
the New Health Frontier
健康保养新前沿:关注睡眠 25
Being On Facebook Can Actually Make Us Happier
脸书在线能让我们更快乐 28
Unit 4 31
Glad to Be Grey
年纪大是好事情? 31
How Gillian Flynn Changed the Way You Look at Your
Spouse
吉莉安·弗琳如何改变了你对配偶的看法 33
Dont Text While Parenting — It Will Make You Cranky
在教育孩子时,不要低头发短息——这会让你性情古怪 35
Korean Cool Is the Ultimate National Marketing Ploy
韩流本质上是一种国家营销策略 37
Unit 5 40
Aliens On Line 2; Hold, Please...
不要放弃搜寻外星人的计划 40
Seeing Is Believing
眼见为实 42
Were Sorry, Applicants. We Accepted
You in Error
很抱歉通知您,我们录取您是因为系统出错 44
Its the Season to Break Up
分手季 47
Unit 6 50
The Computer Will See You Now
现在电脑能给你看病了 50
Howard U. Students, Faculty Add Color to Wikipedias
White
霍华德大学填补维基百科中关于黑人历史的空缺 52
Warming Earth Heading For the Hottest Year on Record
全球变暖,即将迎来史上最热年 55
Surprising Behaviors That Put Teens at Serious Risk of
Depression
某些行为让青少年成为抑郁症的高危人群 57
提高篇60
Unit 1 60
Restraining Spending: Congress Should Let the
President Try
国会无力控制开支,也许该放手让总统一试 60
Fact or Fiction? Elephants Never Forget
大象能过目不忘? 62
Two Words That Could Hurt Your Kids: Nice Job
过度鼓励反而不利于孩子成长 64
The Hidden Dangers of “Skinny Fat”
“瘦胖子”:身形苗条却肌肉松弛,隐藏了怎样的危险? 67
Unit 2 70
Poverty, Crime and Education: The Paradox of the
Ghetto
贫困、犯罪与教育——贫民窟的悖论 70
Water: All Dried Up
水资源全面干涸 72
How Your Diet Can Hurt Your Marriage
节食如何毁了你的婚姻 75
Showing A Little Pacemaker
微型心脏起搏器的诞生 77
Unit 3 80
The Economics Curriculum Is Evolving, But Too Slowly
for Some
经济学课程不断发展,但对某些人来说节奏略慢 80
The Internet Is a Safer Place for Your Teen Than You
Think
互联网对你的孩子而言,比你想象中要安全 82
Make or Break for China
中国迎来了孤注一掷的关键时刻 84
Designers Building Roadways That Generate Solar Power
太阳能之路 87
Unit 4 90
Unconscious Thought Not So Smart After All
无意识思考也许并不那么高明 90
Magnetic Bacteria Could Help Destroy Tumors and Fight
Cancer
磁性细菌或有助于治疗癌症 92
Nostalgia for the Soviet Era Sweeps the Internet
对前苏联时代的怀旧情绪席卷网络 94
Surveillance: Secrets, Lies and Americas
Spies
监视:秘密、谎言和美国的间谍们 97
Unit 5 100
The Brand Played Out
大品牌大势已去 100
Reading Harry Potter Gives Clues to Brain Activity
阅读《哈利波特》为研究人脑活动提供线索 102
School Reform: How to Tame a Trojan Horse
校制改革——如何驯服一只害群之马 104
Civilian Drones on Unclear Course
民用航拍机将何去何从? 107
冲刺篇110
Unit 1 110
RoboCup
机器人世界杯 110
Education and Class: Americas
New Aristocracy
教育与阶级:美国的新权贵阶层 112
Why Schools Should Undermine Moral Teachings
为什么学校教育会冲击道德教育 115
Missed Chance on Immigration
错失良机的移民政策 117
Unit 2 121
Modern Families
摩登家庭 121
Crows Understand Analogies
乌鸦也会推理 123
When It Comes to A Long Life, There Is No Equality
寿命无平等可言 126
America Hates Its Gifted Kids
美国浪费了天才儿童 128
Unit 3 132
The Artful Dodgers
狡猾的逃税公司 132
Love, Tax and Wedlock
爱情,税收和婚姻 134
Will Tim Cook Succeed Running Steve Jobss
Company?
库克能否成功经营苹果公司? 137
Whats Wrong, Doc?
动画产业怎么了? 139
Unit 4 143
Environment Trumps Genetics in Shaping Immune System
环境因素对免疫系统的影响大于基因因素 143
How Facebook Could Sabotage Your Blind Date
脸书如何毁了你的社交 145
Scientists Map What Your Brain Looks Like on English
科学家绘制你的大脑在听英文时的样子 147
Mutual Suspicion Mars Tech Trade with China
中美技术交易:疑虑重重 149
Unit 5 153
The Billiondollar Race to Reinvent the
Computer Chip
千金竞赛:革新电脑芯片 153
Nearly Seven Years After the Onset of the Great
Recession, the National Mood Remains
Troubled
经济危机近七年之后,国民情绪仍然焦虑 155
Gender Inequality in Science
科学研究领域的性别不平等问题 158
Scientists Find Life in the Cold and Dark Under
Antarctic Ice
发现:南极冰川下的生命 160
第二部分考博英语模拟阅读
Unit 1 165
Unit 2 177
Unit 3 189
Unit 4 200
Unit 5 212
第三部分考博英语阅读模拟试题
博士研究生入学考试英语模拟试题(一)225
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In the U.S.husband—and—wife duo Scott and Julie Brusaw have dedicated their lives to a similar vision.Their Idaho—based Solar Roadways project has received multiple research grants from the Federal Highway Administration ( FHWA) to build a solar parking lot, completed in March, and raised $ 2.2 million on Indiegogo earlier this year to continue development.The FHWA is currently reviewing test results from the Brusaws'' solar parking lot.The agency considers the technology to be interesting, though very preliminary, and cautions the public against infusing the idea with too much utopianism.But Scott Brusaw, the veteran electrical engineer behind the design, has big hopes.
"We have a variety of projects programmed for 2015 here in our hometown of Sandpoint, Idaho,including an Amtrak train station plaza, a city welcome center parking lot, downtown city sidewalks, and animal shelter parking lot, and a local airport," Brusaw says."Once those are installed, we will monitor them for a full year to make sure we are satisfied with them and then we begin spreading out to other areas."